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                   Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
                            Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair


          AB 2102 (Ting) - Licensees: data collection.
          
          Amended: August 4, 2014         Policy Vote: B&P 6-2
          Urgency: No                     Mandate: No
          Hearing Date: August 4, 2014                            
          Consultant: Brendan McCarthy    
          
          This bill does not meet the criteria for referral to the  
          Suspense File.
          
          
          Bill Summary: AB 2012 would require the Board of Registered  
          Nursing, the Physician Assistant Board, the Respiratory Care  
          Board, and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric  
          Technicians to collect specific demographic information from  
          licensees.

          Fiscal Impact: One-time costs of about $130,000 for  
          modifications to the computer software used to process licensing  
          applications (various special funds).

          Background: Under current law, the Board of Registered Nursing,  
          the Physician Assistant Board, the Respiratory Care Board, and  
          the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians  
          license and regulate those specific allied health professionals.  
          Under current law and practice, these boards do not routinely  
          collect demographic data relating to ethnicity or languages  
          spoken.

          Under current law, the Medical Board of California and the  
          Dental Board collect information from licensees on race,  
          ethnicity, and languages spoken. The Office of Statewide Health  
          Planning and Development uses this information, amongst other  
          data sources, to analyze and report on the state's health care  
          workforce needs.

          Proposed Law: AB 2012 would require the Board of Registered  
          Nursing, the Physician Assistant Board, the Respiratory Care  
          Board, and the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric  
          Technicians to collect specific demographic information from  
          licensees.









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          The bill would require the impacted boards to collect  
          information on the licensee's location of practice, type of  
          primary practice site, race or ethnicity, gender, languages  
          spoken, and educational background.

          The bill would require the impacted boards to transmit the  
          collected data to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and  
          Development.